Since last Thursday, the only thing I’ve been looking at is the blue examination papers and I was getting a bit bored of them! So I was pleased today to be sitting a higher level exam in the form of History. I said yesterday that it’s a course so vast that all you can do is pray that what topics you’ve studied come up in some shape or form on the exam! Of course you could spend the time praying doing some actual study instead. I like my way better though for today when I opened the paper I saw questions on everything I had studied… lucky me 
The documents question was based on the GAA and while I didn’t do much study on it, the questions were nice and easy and the 40 mark essay was on a nice and broad topic (how did the GAA overcome the difficulties it faced). I just waffled on for a page and a bit about how they popularised the sports and tackled the Fenian influence in the organisation. Hopefully I’ll get close to full marks for the section!
Section Two was all about Irish History which is by far my worst area because of the many similar dates that you’re required to remember and despite my last minute efforts to imprint important dates into my brain, I forgot them all when I went to answer the question on Anglo-Irish relations following the foundation of the Free State. All I could do was include rough dates but I reckon the standard of my two and half page answer was around the C level.
I must say that I loved the 2 questions I did on European History. The Dictatorship and Democracy question I did saw me explain the main characteristics of Nazi Germany prior to WWII. I was able to rant and rave about education, the economy, propaganda, religion and the persecution of the Jews for a good while and I reckon the overall answer was worthy of maybe 75/100 marks, once again dropping marks for being unable to pinpoint certain dates! The other question wasn’t on The role of women as I had hoped… instead it was on the role of women and the changes in family and marriage. I was spoilt for choice! I was able bang off facts and figures relating to 40 years of change and was able to get in 8 decently sized paragraphs all filled with scrumptuous relavent information. I’d be disappointed if I don’t get 90/100 for it
Overall I reckon it went very well and am hoping for a low B or a high C. I was very nervous about it this morning but once I started writing there was no looking back and I left the exam hall after time was up today feeling as if a weight had been lifted off my shoulders! I know many have finished their exams today, but I still have two left - German and Economics. Strangely enough I can’t wait for them!
PERSONALLY i couldnt do economics if you paid me…and thats the truth!!and i have my leaving cert exam in 1 week……yeeeepeeee!!!
I love economics though, hopefully it will be my best result!
god damn you history. unreliable fuck. lucky if i manage a C2. and i always thought it was my best subject. bastards.all will be revieled in less than 48hrs…shudder.
i can t beleive how fucked up that history went… i worked so damn hard on that one subject! no one should ever do it for leaving certificate.. totall waste! i loved the subject, had a great teacher.. did excellent in project but still fucked up.. anyone else feel the same
yes i completely understand. i was banking on an A and only managed a B2. and again, i put in so much effort, great project etc etc but alas…and i hope to pursue history next year but now i feel totally inadequate.
Leaving cert is such a dodgy exam. You could be excellent at the subject but the way a question is phrased can really throw you. I have completed my History degree and to be honest the leaving cert is the hardest exam I have ever sat so dont give up on it if you didnt do as well as you hoped.The subject is well wroth the time
I managed to get a C1 which I think was partially due to my research topic which would have gotten around full marks. My paper itself probably only barely scraped a C3 but needless to say, I’m glad that the research topic was introduced!
heya OMG im so feed up of the reserch project. I spend da most of my summer holz writing it up and now im told its has too much information and its too long. So now i have to re-write my project and take out 2000 words. I can’t wait for da MTB.
cake???
I got an a1 with such a pathetic lack of work its funny. History isn’t as bad as it seems, just have the confidence to keep writing whatever happens. If you have an aptitude for english, this will come naturally anyway.